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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Inside the Google Earth Satellite Factory
Behind a long rectangular window, in a high white room tended by ghostly figures in masks and hats, a new satellite is taking shape.
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Herding Robots
Researchers say they have developed a system that combines existing robotic control programs to enable multiagent systems to collaborate in complex ways.
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Google Encourages Developers to Create Art sing Code
Google is helping to promote a global competition to find an up-and-coming software developer artist who pushes the boundaries of art using code.
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A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions
Don Harrison became Google's head of mergers and acquisitions about a year ago.
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Groups Step Up Efforts to Develop More Female It Workers
The National Center for Women in Technology has partnered with the Million Women Mentors to boost female participation in the technology industry.
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Sochi: Our Tweeted Emotions Decrypted in Real Time
Researchers will use social media to track the emotions of people viewing the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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It's Erwin the Friendly Robot
A doctoral student will use a friendly robot to study how the human-robot relationship would be affected if robots have human-like thought biases.
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Herding Robots
Writing a program to control a single autonomous robot navigating an uncertain environment with an erratic communication link is hard enough; write one for multiple...
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Baxter and the Second Machine Age
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century is not just the story of steam power, but steam started it all.
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Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences
There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...
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The Growing Need to Recycle Electronics
e-Cycling allows reclamation of valuable materials, and helps prevent pollution.
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Target's Heating and Refrigeration Company Gave Hackers the Key to Customer Data
The massive Target data breach is a symbol of the need for tighter data security in big retail chains, but it's also still an evolving story in its own right.
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Experiment Adds Sense of Touch to Artificial Hand
Swiss and Italian researchers have developed a robotic hand that enables amputees to feel differences between objects.
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Ballistic Transport in Graphene Suggests New Type of Electronic Device
Researchers have found that electrical resistance in nanoribbons of epitaxial graphene changes in discrete steps following quantum mechanical principles.
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Researcher Takes a Muscular Approach to Robotics
A team at Harvard University has developed a robotic device to restore movement for sufferers of neuromuscular disorders that affect the foot and ankle.
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Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen
The Wikipedia Foundation formed a team of software developers to focus on developing the site for use with mobile devices.
From ACM Careers
Virtual Games Bring Pinball to New Audiences
The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big...
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Tim Berners-Lee: We Need to Re-Decentralize the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee called on the public to refocus on a decentralized, open Internet.
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2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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